Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Month: June 2011
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Africa’s Latin Quarter The Walrus July 2008 (Escape: Summer 2008) Stephen Henighan Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives In downtown Maputo, the monument to the origins of apartheid is just off Karl Marx Street. Maputo, with its manageable proportions, dreamy views over Delagoa Bay, and cosmopolitan restaurant scene, is one of Africa’s most…
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Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society’s white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society’s racial stratification.
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The Military Camptown in Retrospect: Multiracial Korean American Subject Formation Along the Black-White Binary Bowling Green State University December 2007 116 pages Perry Dal-nim Miller Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis applies theoretical approaches from the…
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Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check The New York Times 2011-06-14 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality… Read the…
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On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex The New York Times 2011-06-13 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg HOUSTON — At the beginning of the college application season last fall, Natasha Scott, a high school senior of mixed racial heritage in Beltsville, Md., vented about a personal dilemma on College Confidential, the go-to…
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Defining multiracial citizens The Boston Globe 2011-06-12 Brittany Danielson, Globe Correspondent Evolving ideas about identity mean mixed-race people don’t have to settle for ‘other’ n a suburban Massachusetts classroom in 1985, a 7-year-old Chris Olds raised his hand to grab his teacher’s attention; he wasn’t sure which bubble to fill in for race on a…
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Panel by Hapa and Critical Mixed Race Studies Scholars and Artists Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center Japanese American History Museum 2011-08-04 Emily Momohara, Assistant Professor of Art Art Academy of Cincinnati Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University Dmae Roberts Moderated by Tim DuRoche, Director of Programs World Affairs Council of Oregon…
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Through Eyes Like Mine is the story of a childhood told through the present-tense voice of Nori Nakada. Born to a Japanese American father and German-Irish mother in rural Oregon, Nori’s family becomes increasingly diverse when they adopt a six-year-old boy from Korea.